FUTTOCKS

In Nautical language, the timbers between the floor timbers and the top limbers. G. G. The seventh letter of the English Alphabet, but the third in those of all the Oriental languages, and also of die Greek. The form of our G is borrowed from the Roman alphabet. G, in English, ha* two smuiis: before a,o, and u, and occasionally before t and r, it is the medial letter of the gutturalforeeandorder;i, is one"the of oilier the mcdial ound, wheliof the sibilantil po e es series.only The be guttural G is liable to a variety of changes in diifereut dialects and languages. (Sec Penny Cyclo.) G, as a Roman abbreviature,is used for gratis, gens, gaudiiim, . G. V. signinio urb is, (;. L. genio toel, and 0. r. H. gloria populi BoDMUlL As a numeral it denoted 400, — G quadringentot demonstrative tt-r.el it. On the French coins G indicates the city of Poicttera; and in chronology it is the seventh Dominical letter. G. in music, is the fifth note or degree of the dinUmic scale. I to the sol of the French and Italians. It is used also to dei i treble clef. [s. 499]